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Mieko and the fifth treasure

Staying with her grandparents after the atomic bomb has been dropped on Nagasaki, ten-year-old Mieko feels that the happiness in her heart has departed forever and she will no longer be able to produce a beautiful drawing for the contest at school.

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Main Author: Coerr, Eleanor
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1993.
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Nagasaki (Japan) > History > Bombardment, 1945 > Juvenile fiction.
Japan > Juvenile fiction.
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Summary:Staying with her grandparents after the atomic bomb has been dropped on Nagasaki, ten-year-old Mieko feels that the happiness in her heart has departed forever and she will no longer be able to produce a beautiful drawing for the contest at school.
Physical Description:77 p. ; 24 cm.
ISBN:0399224343
Author Notes:Eleanor Coerr was born in 1922 in Kamsack, Saskatchewan, Canada. Before becoming a children's book author, she was a newspaper reporter, an editor of a column for children, and taught children's literature at Monterey Peninsula College and creative writing at Chapman College in California. Her works include Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, Mieko and the Fifth Treasure, Sadako, and The Big Balloon Race. She died on November 22, 2010 at the age of 88.

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